Finally, how is all of this rot any different than the chatter I’ve claimed to abandon—the obsessing with systematizing and whatever? Perhaps I’m too far gone down this road already! I won’t try to defend coming by this ragged route to this point. I hobble like I hobble. But this point is where I’ve aimed to expose my responsibility rather than any prowess with reason.
In the things I do, am I betraying the identity I “know” myself to hold? Does part of me “know” stuff like “thou shalt not kill,” but other parts seem to “know” something different or take for granted something different? I must ask what I do, in fact, “know” in these cases, and exactly where I’m getting my “knowledge.” The conflation of identity and voice has to be held at bay here too, but a question has been smoldering in the last two posts for Jesus followers: Doesn’t the abandonment of Jesus in any voice fragment our identity as Jesus followers? And, yes, “we” finally get dragged into this whole pickle!
Which “we” will we be?
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